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Anna fever on Park Street

Till a few days ago i had never heard of Anna Hazare and I’m sure 99% of the citizens of this country had not heard of him. All of a sudden, 5 days into his hunger strike comparisons are being drawn with Gandhi. One man’s stand against the plague of corruption in India has captured the imagination of the common people and engulfed the nation into a voice in unison against this scourge.

So the email petitions have been doing the rounds and I myself had received several and the media is abuzz with Anna Hazare, but I witnessed the decibel, power and length of this voice as citizens of Kolkata marched down Park Street in support of Anna Hazare chanting slogans of Patriotism and against Corruption. The entire length of Park Street seemed to be covered by this serpentine slogan shouting, banner and candle wielding mass of citizens of all ages.

It just goes to show how one man’s belief can stir up an entire nation to action.

Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, are you listening?




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Location: Park Street, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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  1. Subhrashis Adhikari11:22 AM

    Nice pics...good to know that our good old park street was full...

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  2. Rohit Nyss11:37 AM

    yeah man, I had gone back to office at about 8:30PM and this procession with young and old were going down the length of Park Street (Mother Teresa Sarani).

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  3. Subhrashis Adhikari12:29 PM

    being away from KOL for 7yrs..i miss park street a lot...yesterday i have been to Jantar Mantar {del} and the atmosphere was amazing...ppl of all class, caste, religion were there to fight corruption...the bill might not do any good...but the hope this old man has rekindled in the billion hearts will definitely do some good!

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